Maria Dahvana Headley - Beowulf
Newcastle Writers Festival - A podcast by Newcastle Writers Festival
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Novelist Maria Dahvana Headley has created a revisionist translation of the Old English poem Beowulf, infusing it with feminism and social-media slang. She speaks to Magdalena Ball about being one of only a few women translators who has tackled the 3182-line poem. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.